These collections are now available on ARTstor’s Digital Library: Cook’s Voyages to the South Seas (Natural History Museum, London): 1,647 images of botanical and zoological illustrations associated with Captain James Cook’s expeditions to the South Pacific from 1768 – 1779 (keywords: endeavour botanical OR cook forster OR cook ellis) Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and Estate: 1,172…
The Museum of Modern Art in New York’s current retrospective of performance artist Marina Abramović includes a live video-feed of the artist in a new work, “The Artist is Present.” The piece, which can be viewed during museum hours through the run of the exhibition (14 March-31 May), is performed in the museum’s Marron Atrium…
Saul Zalesch, Associate Professor of Art History at Louisiana Tech University, curates a website dedicated to the “identification, preservation, publicizing, and study of ephemeral publications that provide more-nuanced pictures of American culture and life”. The site includes a gallery of more obscure objects (posters and labels, for example, are not included) and readers are encouraged…
The United States Postal Service has announced a new commemorative stamp series honoring 10 Abstract Expressionist painters whose “artistic innovations and achievements…moved the United States to the forefront of the international art scene”. The paintings were selected by Art Historian Jonathan Fineberg (Gutgsell Professor Art History, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign) and USPS Art Director…
In addition to the Indianapolis Museum (see next posting), the Brooklyn Museum is also using a tagging system to organize, and let the visitor organize, the collections. It’s a great interactive exercise, allowing you to determine your own set of image search parameters.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art has put up a page with an innovative way to browse their collections. It’s called Tag Tours, and is based on social tagging. For example you can browse works by tags such as colour, or a variety of content subjects/themes (animals, food, sports). It’s a great way for the museum…